Reviews
Samaras, Skibska and Chardiet
Issue 74 | Spring
Books
New books on Orrefors, Frederick Carder and the worldwide studio glass movement.
Features
Brian Hirst's Votive Vessels
by Geoffrey Edwards
Curator Geoffrey Edwards meditates upon the ceremonial aspects of the work of one of Australia's best artists.
Mary Shaffer, Pioneer
by April Kingsley
Glass can be feminist, claims critic, curator and historian April Kingsley in her analysis of Shaffer's oeuvre.
Paul Marioni, The Visitor
by Matthew Kangas
Matthew Kangas examines Marioni's stranger-in-a-strange-land iconography.
New York Mosaic
by Robert Hickman
Artist Robert Hickman maps mosaics--mostly glass, but also marble and ceramics--from Manhattan to Brighton Beach. Ben Shahn, Lee Krasner and Hans Hofman worked in glass!
Response: Broken Is Not All It Is Cracked Up to Be
by Brett Littman
Brett Littman makes the case that the use of found objects in glass is as Duchampian as cracks and cullet.